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Oliver's Wishes
Cory Gaffner - 2018
Last week I had an IQ so low that I sometimes forgot how to get home, and could barely stumble through sentences. This week I am the owner of the most advanced space station in the known universe and I wield powers that can alter reality itself. If I have the energy that my power is dependent upon... You see I get more energy every day, it's a set amount. I can stockpile it or burn it all up on one giant "upgrade" as I like to call it. This power comes from one of the wishes I made, yes, on a magical genie's lamp. I know that sounds crazy. So what do a Viking woman from 800AD, a U.S. Army combat veteran, and a fat gaming nerd have in common? Well, they're my team, and if I can save up enough energy I can use my new power to give them superpowers of their own. That's the plan at least. The problem with my plan is that I have some shadow organization looking for me. They'll kill me, my family, my friends, and everyone I have ever loved to get the lamp. What do they want? As far as I can tell they want to rewrite our universe into some kind of communist paradise where freewill comes second to safety and the government. I have to find some way to keep the lamp from the organization going after it that involves more than just hiding up in my space station. I refuse to be a hermit coward. I also have an ingrained need to help people, and now I have the power to do that. I have more resources at my disposal than any law enforcement agency on earth, and a team of people willing to help me. I want to be a hero, but I have no idea what I'm doing. Did I mention I was a barely functioning idiot last week? Content Warning: This book contains foul language, mild gore, and fictional politics.
Letters to Sarah - A Child Lost Forever, A Mother's Grief and a Love That Will Never Die
Sara Payne - 2017
It has been twenty-five years since you were born. There have been too many Christmases without you . . . 'In the summer of 2000, schoolgirl Sarah Payne went missing from a beach where she played with her siblings. The nation waited with her whole family as the search for the little girl touched the hearts of everyone in the country. After Sarah's body was found, abducted and murdered by convicted paedophile Roy Whiting, her mother, Sara, spoke of how she had survived those terrible times.Now, seventeen years later, Sara wants to tell the full story of how she coped then, and how she has survived. Through a series of letters to her beloved daughter, she takes the reader on a heart-breaking but uplifting journey through every parent's worst nightmare in a moving account of the ultimate emotional survival. It is a story for the little girl who was taken, but a reminder to us all that hope never dies – and love never ends.
Can't Hide From Love: A Boss' Obsession
Bianca - 2016
That devil just so happens to be Trenae’s boyfriend of two years, Silas Jackson. Trenae is head over heels in love with Silas, but he only uses her for money while he turns to other women for his sexual needs, since Trenae doesn’t plan to give up the goods anytime soon. Blinded by Silas’s fake love for her, Trenae can’t see Silas doing any wrong in her eyes. When she meets Nahlij, Trenae just maybe forced to open her eyes to a whole new world of possibilities. Life for Nahlij has been one disappointment after the other. At the age of five, his mother abandons him, leaving his father to take on the responsibility of being a single father. On the night of his 15th birthday, Nahlij witnesses his dad be murdered in cold blood by a crooked cop who had a gambling habit. “Don’t let them get away with this shit,” were the last words his father spoke before he took his last breath, and Nahlij vowed to make the officer pay for the death of his father. Now at the ripe age of 30, Nahlij is an undercover killer, trained by his foster parents. Still heart broken and hurt by the abandonment of his mother, Nahlij has vowed to never love a woman out of fear that he’ll be left again. When he’s assigned to a mission in Tallahassee, Fla., Nahlij just may push his ‘no love’ persona to the back of his mind when he meets the beautiful Trenae Wallace. They say what happens in Rome, stays in Rome, but will that hold true for Nahlij and Trenae? Can one night with Nahlij make Trenae forget about Silas? Can Trenae make Nahlij forget about his vow to never love a woman and make him fall for her? Can’t Hide From Love will leave you on the edge of your seat, begging for more. The plots and twists of love and betrayal will leave you obsessed and possibly make you question…Who the hell can you really trust?
The Forgotten One (Dragon's Gap)
L.M. Lacee - 2020
Binding Magic: Dragons of Arethia Book Two
Nikki Bollman - 2015
In between attending make-up magic classes, dragon training lessons, and simply learning her way around the big city of Areth, Tesa can't help but try to uncover the secret behind the symbol-engraved stones Berick used to enslave her. With all her new dragon rider friends away from the city searching for the stolen egg and kidnapped guard, Tesa must find new friends and allies as she searches for the answer to the spellstones. What she finds may put her--and the dragons--in more danger than ever before.
All That Glitters Duet: Diamonds & Gold
K.A. Linde - 2016
Hot, seductive, enticing. He’s at least ten years older than her seventeen years, and he knows exactly what he’s doing to her with that look. Walking away would be the smart thing to do…But she can’t. Not that first night when he takes her home and claims her body. Not when he shows up in her life again with expensive gifts to win her trust. Not even when she’s falling for him, and everything else is falling apart…GOLDLove. That cursed four-letter word no longer belongs in Bryna’s vocabulary. The only four-letter word she knows now is gold…and fuck.She’s well acquainted with that one. And that’s exactly what she plans to do. She’s no longer the golden girl, and when she meets a businessman who promises everything she could ever want from the arrangement, she intends to get her money’s worth.Find out how Bryna goes from golden girl to gold digger in these tantalizingly scandalous books in the USA Today bestselling author K.A. Linde’s All That Glitters series.
Almost
Sally Mason - 2018
LOVE. For advertising copywriter Holly Carmichael life has been a series of near misses. When a major career disappointment catapults her from snowbound Jersey City to a yoga retreat in balmy Thailand, will she find happiness in the arms of cute cartoonist Johnny Highnote, or will this be yet another “almost”?
Brother Thief
Gregory J. Downs - 2011
Among these, Gribly the thief is considered to be a rising force of destiny: he always wins, always gets what he wants, and never, ever gets caught. Most people think it's skill, and some think it's just dumb luck... but everyone is wrong. Gribly has a talent that no one knows about- not even the old gypsy who raised him. It's because of this talent that he's so good at burglary, and he makes sure no one knows his secret. Should it ever become known, he knows, his life would be imperiled... The Dunelord, ruler of Ymeer, will brook no equals. Gribly's talent makes him an equal, and that makes him a threat. This boy can control the power of sand... but even in a city built from it, that may not be enough.Into the scene stumbles a mysterious young messenger named Lauro. When Gribly finds him dying from exhaustion outside the city gates, Lauro claims he bears a message from Larion, King of Vastion in the south, to the Dunelord. Helping Lauro could be Gribly's way out of trouble... but do messengers carry royal swords? Do they control the power of the winds?Both lads soon realize the other has something to hide, but neither one knows the titanic role they will play in the world-shaking events that will soon grip Ymeer... and the entire continent of Vast.Become a legend... or die trying.
फाशी बखळ [Phashi Bakhal]
Ratnakar Matkari - 1974
How did he allow the other person to die? How did he help the other person to hang himself to death? He was terribly upset about this. The moment his eyes saw a rope in any form he used to remember everything.........
The Culling
Roberto Calas - 2012
He knows there isn’t a man alive who can fulfill the promise of such a word. But when a caravan transporting a noble family is savaged in the haunted forest of Maug Maurai, Grae is ordered to be a hero. And a villain. It's quite a handful for an officer whose last assignment was capturing runaway orchard pigs. Such is the fate of a commoner among the high-born officer corps of the King's army.Until now.Grae is ordered to lead a small squad into the forest to kill the legendary Beast of Maug Maurai. It's a suicide mission, but if he succeeds he will reap glory, a noble title, lands, and, most importantly, respect. All he has to do is slay the most dangerous creature in the kingdom with the squad of misfits and criminals that he’s been assigned. A female archer that Grae presses into service makes things even more difficult. Her kindness and odd philosophies begin to chip away at his deepest conviction.Before he sets out Grae receives one last ugly detail. A secret secondary assignment that makes it clear to him why he was chosen to lead the squad. It’s the first order Grae has ever considered disobeying, an order that will force him to choose between his loyalty and his morality. And he’s certain that the wrong choice will plunge the kingdom into civil war.The Culling is the first of a three-part novel.
Godwalker
Greg Stolze - 2005
Ignorance is no excuse for the cops and creeps and exterminators whose desires shaped the world. Knowledge is a little power, a dangerous thing, to the cross-dressers and risk-takers who understand enough to damage the world more to their liking. They all collude and collide on a driverless ride, each trying to be the one to break the secret heart of the world. But only one can claim the prize of being the cosmos' corrupt ward boss. Only one can be the Godwalker.
Diary of the Plug's Daughter
Sol - 2018
In New York, an unlikely pair of young girls forge a new friendship after finding out that they’ll be roommates. Both ladies are attempting to walk away from past relationships while at the same time preparing for their freshman year at Medgar Evers. Some call it growing up, but they call it growing pains. Hailing all the way from Harlem, 18-year-old Remy has been with the same guy since she was in high school. Their love is seemingly perfect, they’re even engaged to be married, so you know it’s real. All is well between the loving couple until Remy has a chance encounter with The Taliban Gang’s newest and most promising hustler. One who refuses to take no for an answer and is just as dangerous as he is handsome. What happens when you’re already spoken for, but a rich thug wants you? Summer is fresh out of a relationship and trying to get over her first love. Perhaps it would be easier to move on if her ex-boyfriend would stop playing peek-a-boo in her life. Who knows? One thing’s for sure, and two thing’s for certain, she’s got a new boo who’s smitten over her and an old boo who isn’t prepared to fully let her go. Then the question became, what are the consequences of being romantically involved with two dope boys at the same time? Unbeknownst to Remy and Summer, they have an uphill battle on their way to greatness. With all the lies, lust, murder, drug money and betrayal that comes with street love, how are they ever going to make it to college in one piece? Find out now...
Slime Tamer's Chronicles: Volume 1 (Slime Tamer 's Chronicles)
Nata Valerio - 2017
Our protagonist lives a closed off life but not a NEET's life. He trains everyday until finally he was ready. Killing his father he made sure that his mother who divorced was paid back for what his father did to them all. Walking away to who knows where and dying from an accident. Now follow the daily life of our MC as she tries to adapt to her new life in a new body and in a unique world. (This is not a translation. This is original in English)
Rewriting Justice: The Complete D.C. Series: Justice Served Cold, Vengeance Served Hot, Bounty Hunter Inc, Beware The Hunter
Martha Carr - 2019
Here's your chance to get the complete D.C. Series starring Leira Berens and her swearing troll.
Justice Served Cold:
Leira Berens has split with the Feds and has gone out on her own to save her corner of the world. Magic is on the loose and the werewolves, Elves and Witches are causing trouble. Leira’s working on a new world with her Light Elf by her side and a certain swearing troll.
There are whispers among the dark Wizarding families that she’s a new kind of bounty hunter. Time to show them how it’s done. They’ll never see her coming.
Vengeance Served Hot:
Once a cop, always a cop? Not if they become a bounty hunter...
Leira Berens, former homicide detective must clean the streets, but this time it is against magic infused folks, shifters and dark wizards. There are no laws on the books to handle this situation.
So, she is going to help make some.
With a fireball in one hand and a pair of cuffs in the other, those she hunts can take their pick. A Light Elf and a swearing troll by her side… the world’s got a fighting chance at surviving the return of magic.
Bounty Hunter Inc.:
Hey dark wizards, there’s a new law in town.
Her name is Leira Berens, part Jaspar elf, part human and she’s done playing nice.Leira Berens is the world’s first bounty hunter of magical criminals and she likes her job. Elves, gnomes, dark wizards and even a few humans want her to take early retirement…six feet under.
Good thing she can throw a mean fireball, run toward trouble and is done playing by everyone else’s rules. Magic has returned and a bounty hunter is just what the planet needed.
Beware The Hunter:
The hunt is on – but who’s the prey?
Leira Berens is the government’s newest bounty hunter of magical thugs – the first in the country. That’s not sitting well with a lot of dark magic. Leira, Correk and that troll YTT can see them coming. Too bad they don’t know that’s just the beginning of the story.
Dark elementals have shown up in our world and no one knows what to do with them, but everyone wants control. Everything Leira has learned will be tested in order to keep the balance between Earth and Oriceran.
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NOTE: This book contains cursing. Perhaps humorous cursing, but cursing nevertheless. If this offends you, we don't suggest reading this book.